chapotraphouse

It’s honestly very difficult to evaluate Shining Path or even find reliable information on them. Were they a ill-disciplined group of dog-hanging Maoists? Or did they, with a handful of impoverished people and fuck all resources, bring a government to its knees and nearly bring about revolution? I don’t know. I’ve actually never read Gonzalo and I will one day when I have the time, but I expect the answer as to the nature of SP will be in there. But I haven’t read it because people who have have told me it’s nonsense. And history shows that when you get ahead of the people and try to impose communism without wide support, it always ends badly even if the revolution succeeds.